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H Leavis, 19 - 23 Regent Street1851:
Francis P Fenner
Francis P Fenner, 40 tobacconist, b Cambridge [This is the same as Francis P Fenner, the cricketer who founded Fenner’s].
Mary W, 34, b Chatteris
Emma L, 10, b Cambridge
Frances M, 6, b Cambridge
Ellen J, 3, b Cambridge
Eliza, sister, 41, milliner, b Cambridge
Sarah Clayter, 19, servant, b Fulbourn
Eliza Cornwell, 16, servant, b Cambridge
In 1861 the Fenner family were in Emmanuel Road.
Romilly’s editor adds a note for the diarist’s entry of 21st April 1854:
F P Fenner played his first match at Lords in 1832 and cricket for Cambridge town club for 23 years after that. he kept a tobacconist’s and grocery shop (with which he managed to incorporate a gymnasium) at 6 [sic] Market Hill until 1863.
See ‘Fenner’s Men Cambridgeshire Cricket 1822-48’ by Willie Sugg (2009)
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1861:
John Bradford
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1871: ?
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1881: ?
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1891: (5)
Stained Glass Works
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1901: ?
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1911: ?
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1913:
Leavis Pianoforte workshop
William H Constable, stained glass works
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1964:
Cyril Ridgeon and Sons, builder’s merchants
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